I looked at the empty tomb.
The coffin stopped about thirty or forty meters in front of us, but it was obvious that there was such a huge open space in the middle of the coffin.
The tomb is built underground. Such a huge project, but leaving such a large blank space, seems to be problematic no matter how you look at it.
"Wait a minute, don't go there yet."
I grabbed Cui Hao and dragged him to my side.
"Look, there is such a big open space in front of you, how can there be nothing in it? If this was your tomb, wouldn't you set up a mechanism here?"
Cui Hao was stunned by my question, and after a moment he murmured and nodded.
"That seems to make some sense."
Cui Hao looked around, picked up a stone on the ground, and smashed it against the ground in front of him.
There was a loud bang.
Suddenly, a one-meter-wide hole appeared where the stone landed, directly leaking the stone.
After staying for three seconds, the cave entrance was sealed again and quickly disappeared without a trace.
"..."
Cui Hao was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him.
He took a few steps back in fear and stood behind me.
"I'll go, Mr. Xiaoman. If we go down here, we have to carry this thing and make dumplings. Isn't this thing too scary?"
I nodded and waved at him.
"Anyway, be careful. There must be more than one mechanism in front of you. If you fall down accidentally, your body will definitely be gone."
Cui Hao couldn't help but shiver, looked around and picked up a few pieces of gravel.
"Try again, I don't believe there is no safe place here?"
Cui Hao didn't believe in evil, so he picked up the stones and smashed them on the ground in front of him.
The results were as expected.
There are holes everywhere in front of us.
The stones hit it, and none of them could stay on the ground. They all leaked down through the holes in the ground.
Just for a moment.
All those stones disappeared.
Cui Hao opened his mouth wide, dumbfounded, and lowered his head to look again in disbelief.
I grabbed his arm and shook my head at him.
"It's useless, stop looking. No matter how many rocks you find, it's useless to throw them over. We have no way to confirm a safe way."
I pointed to the empty ground.
"Look, you have already lost so much, but you have never located the exact path. When you finish throwing away the stones here, I don't think we can find it."
Cui Hao asked me with an anxious look on his face, rubbing his hands together.
"Then what should we do? Should we just stay here and watch helplessly and not be able to get through it?"
I shook my head.
I did find that the several tombs under the coffin stele were quite interesting.
I carefully and briefly summarized the previous tombs.
"Cui Hao, do you remember the tombs we visited a few times before? Although there are chain bridges, icy underground palaces, lamas and monks, weird creatures, etc., they are all the same, and they all have one very important point, that is, All doors to the tomb can be opened."
Cui Hao nodded at what I said, and soon remembered the Azure Dragon Cave we met underground before.
"Yes, I still remember the Seven-Star Azure Dragon Cave. The mechanisms there can indeed be activated. What do you mean by that?"
I pointed to the open space in front of me.
"Most people set up these mechanisms to prevent tomb robbers from entering. But this place is different. Have you noticed that they seem to be inviting the emperor to join the family? It is not accurate to say that, or these places are tempting To bring us in and try to make us one of them.”
I remembered the underworld and heaven at that time.
Those terracotta figurines and monsters we encountered below, as well as living figurines possessed by spiders.
They all tell us that once these things attach themselves to our bodies, they will completely make us stay underground and become one of them.
In addition, the Qinglong Cave is the same.
As long as the conditions for opening the door can be met at the same time, we can enter the door, and we even got the treasure.
I shook the Shang Fang sword in my hand.
"Look, I think this place is not as weird as we thought. Although there are traps here, there must be a way out. At first, I thought this place must be a tomb set by some emperor for himself, but now I don't think so ”
When you set up a tomb for yourself somewhere, you will set up eight stone tablets for yourself.
Even if one's own relatives are included, the tombs of these relatives should be buried in other places and cannot be buried in the same cave as the emperor.
So this place looks weird no matter how you look at it.
If you put it another way, if this place is specially set up as a palace for the emperor after his death, and you want to set up an underground kingdom for the emperor.
Not just a tomb for him, then it all makes sense.
The palace under the ground, the study at the back, the long tunnel further back, and the palace of heaven and the underworld appearing inside.
There are also the monks we met before, the hanging coffin on the ceiling, the strange parasites we encountered later, and the underground blue dragon cave.
This is not intended to convey the same message to us again.
This place has Suzaku Xuanwu, Qinglong and White Tiger.
There are even the emperor's palaces, the heavenly palace and the underworld.
This is not like a tomb, but like a place for afterlife enjoyment set by the emperor.
I looked at the two huge coffins in front of me.
This tomb must have its own meaning. As for what is buried in it, it is still unknown.
But we can definitely crack the mechanism here and open the coffin behind it.
Because the Emperor who set this place wants to invite us to be part of it, not prevent us from entering its depths.
After hearing my analysis, Cui Hao also felt that it made sense.
He looked at me and nodded.
"That's right, and it actually makes some sense. So what do you think we should do next?"
I pointed forward to him.
"Since it's impossible to walk on the ground, let's see if we can walk on the wall."
I came to the stone wall next to me, reached out and patted the wall.
"If we can climb over this wall, then we don't have to go through the passage below at all, and naturally we won't touch the mechanisms on the ground."
Cui Hao's eyes suddenly lit up.
He slapped his forehead and let out a soft sigh.
"Frog in the well, I didn't think of this."
After saying that, he immediately turned around and carefully touched the surrounding stone caves.
"This place is not suitable. The wall is too solid. It is made of hard rocks. It is a bit difficult to dig holes and climb on it."
I nodded and pointed behind me.
"But if this place is inaccessible, then how did the person who was locked in the gap just get through? According to this guy, he was not locked in the stone gap in the tomb we just visited. Go, so he must have passed this place."
As soon as these words came out, Cui Hao suddenly became very interested.
"When you put it like that, I think it's really possible, and it's not that difficult and complicated to get through this place."
As he spoke, he looked forward with a smile, and quickly took out a rope, soul-crushing nail, and even a few hooks from his body.
"Master Man, please wait here for a while. I'm here to see if there is any way to tamper with the wall. Since you said so, I have to get the two of us through today."
He took out a chisel and started pounding it on the wall.
It seemed like he wanted to smash the nails in his hands into the wall.
I don't have too many illusions about this.
Looking at the extremely hard wall, I suddenly felt that maybe I was wrong.
"Does it mean that instead of walking on the wall, we are still allowed to walk on the ground?"
I looked at the ground in front of me carefully, and after thinking about it, I took out Shang Fang's sword from my body.
"Knock on the edge and try. Maybe you can find a safe position."
Thinking of this, I immediately walked to the left and walked from left to right.
I knocked on the ground one by one, carefully judging every position.
As I moved, new holes kept appearing.
Almost from beginning to end, I could not find any safe path.
Everywhere I hit, huge round holes appeared.
Cui Hao was hammering nails there.
See me pounding the ground here until I get to the far right.
"Have you found a way through?"
I shook my head helplessly, pointed at the ground and replied.
"No, nothing was found. Just a row of long circular holes, with no safe passage at all."
Cui Hao shouted.
"Strange, are we told to walk to the edge of the circular hole? But if that's the case, why did the mechanism trigger when we just knocked?"
His words immediately gave me a sudden realization.
"Maybe I made a wrong judgment before."
I immediately took out Shang Fang's sword again and continued beating around.
This time, I used my sword to carve scratches into the ground before each strike.
Draw a circle where the round hole is exposed and wrap the round hole inside.
Then I will carefully knock around the round hole to find if there is a safe place to stay around.
I originally thought I was looking in the right direction, and I would definitely be able to find a way forward this time.
But I didn't expect it.
I hammered for a long time and almost smashed the entire tile again.
But even so, there is still no correct path.
Even around the circle, even on the inner side of the front, there is no safe place to stay.
"What's going on? Is this really a dead end? All my previous judgments were wrong?"
I stared at the circular holes on the ground in disbelief, unable to believe that I had made a wrong judgment.
It seems that if you want to pass this place, do you really have to walk through the wall?
